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Blueprint for Justice: Nuremberg Trials Show How To Hold Trump Regime Accountable

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  Follow DemLabs on our NEW social media! Blueprint for Justice: Nuremberg Trials Show How To Hold Trump Regime Accountable The  Nuremberg Trials  exhibit at the  World War II Museum  in New Orleans shows how to hold the Trump regime and ICE agents accountable. The exhibit is a reminder that the path to justice starts with documenting the “small” abuses of power before they scale into systemic atrocities. It explains how the transition from “standard policy” to “state crime” often happens through the budget and the law books. Click on this  infographic  to follow a virtual exhibit tour. Nuremberg Trials at World War II Museum   Watch On YouTube   Blueprint for Justice: The Nuremberg Lessons The Nuremberg Trials provide a “blueprint” for holding a criminal regime accountable by shifting the focus from abstract state immunity to  individual responsibility . The Rejection of “Superior Orders”:  The trials established that “just followi...

My Afternoon With The Last Living Prosecutor of Nazi War Criminals

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  My Afternoon With The Last Living Prosecutor of Nazi War Criminals Michael Moore Nov 21 Benjamin Ferencz in 1947 or 1948 during the Nuremberg trials. Credit: Benjamin Ferencz Archive Today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg Trials. This was the international military tribunal where prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany who carried out or otherwise participated in the Nazi Holocaust and other war crimes were put on trial. In 2018, I spent an afternoon with Ben Ferencz who, at the age of 99, was the last living prosecutor of the Nazis. Without Ben, these Nazi war criminals may never have been brought to justice. Without the Nuremberg Trials, we would not have the modern system of international criminal law. It helped establish new legal principles and led directly to the creation of the Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Criminal Court. My 2018 interview...